LITTLE CAESAR


LITTLE CAESAR

directed by: MERVYN LEROY

USA

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1931

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78

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mono

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EN

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IT





In the Chicago of the 1920s, two Italian-American gangsters, Cesare ‘Rico’ Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), are busy with modest criminal enterprises, trying to get ahead. Bandello, a.k.a. ‘Little Caesar’, is a tough guy determined to make his way at any cost, while Joe dreams of removing himself from the business and becoming a famous dancer. Once they join Sam Vettori’s gang, Rico soon becomes its undisputed leader. Joe, meanwhile, is unable to escape Rico’s domination of him, but he gets his wish and performs with a famous dancer, Olga Strassoff. It is she who convinces Joe to denounce Rico, who has fallen from grace and been replaced by his rival ‘Big Boy’, to the police. Rico, hunted by the police, is forced to flee while his gang breaks up and ‘Little Caesar’, after ending up in a public dormitory, in an extreme attempt to make a comeback ends up riddled with bullets from the police who are hunting him down. LeRoy’s film, together with Hawks’ Scarface and Wellman’s Public Enemy, constitutes the classic trilogy of the gangster movie, with the rise and fall of ‘one of the first true anti-heroes of American cinema, dark, dangerous and lonely’, masterfully played by Edward G. Robinson.



DETTAGLI -

actors: Edward G. Robinson - Cesare Enrico 'Rico' Bandello, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Joe Massara, Glenda Farrel - Olga Strassoff, Stanley Fields - Sam Vettori Owner of The Palermo Club, William Collier Jr. - Tony Passa, Sidney Blackmer - Big Boy
subject: William Riley Burnett
script: Robert N. Lee, Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert Lord
photography: Tony Gaudio
music by: Erno Rapee
mounting: Ray Curtiss
scenography: Anton Grot
color: Bianco & Nero
taken from: ROMANZO OMONIMO DI WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT
production company: FIRST NATIONAL
other titles: LITTLE CAESAR, LE PETIT CESAR






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